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About Us, Usw
      About Us, Usw
      German-American World Historical Society, Inc.
             An American Not-For-Profit Society
     Founded in North Bergen, New Jersey in 2003
   as an German-American Historical Association
                                        Created By:
 Johannes Rammund De Balliel-Lawrora
                      circa - 1972 / Re-established 2003
                               johannes@gawhs.org
















  City and Harbor of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany

            Lebenslauf
     Frederick H. W. Hansen
                       Executive Vice-President
                        Allgemeiner Verwalter
Frederick Herman William Hansen was born in Ridgewood, New York
on December 6, 1942.  He was raised there and graduated from P.S. 93
and Grover Cleveland High School.  He continues to reside in
Ridgewood.  Fred attended Long Island University where he received a
Bachelor of Science Degree in 1964 and a Master of Business
Administration degree from the Graduate  School in 1967.  He also
studied education at the City College of New York.  He was a certified
teacher for the New York City Board of Educationfor 34 years.  He
retired in  July of 2000.

Fred Hansen's association with the German-American Community goes
back to the late 1940's, when he became an active singer in the Brooklyn
Knaben and Maedchen Chor.  At the same time, Fred was enrolled in
1947 as a student in the Sunday School and German School of the
Deutsche Evangelisch Lutherische Zions Kirche in Brooklyn Heights,
New York, where he was baptised in 1943.  He was confirmed into the
Lutheran faith in the High German Language in 1956.  Today he serves
as president of the congregation.

Fred learned the Plattduetsche language from his parents and
grandmother whoriginated from the city of Cuxhaven in Germany, and
over the many years when he attended the Plattduetsche Volksfest and
other functions in Schuetzen Park, North Bergen, New Jersey and
Franklin Square, Long Island, New York.

Fred maintains membership and is an officer or Honorary President in
many German-American organizations.  These include the Steinauer
Club, New York Schuetzen Corps, Reinischer Saengerbund - New York,
German-American World Historical Society, Inc., Schuetzen Park, Inc.
(a catering facility and home to many German-American organizations),
Cuxhavener K-U Verein, Bremervoerder Maenner Chor, Bederkesa'er
Club, Plattduetsche Theater Gruppe both in New York and Brooklyn.  
He is a long-time delegate to the Plattduetsche Volksfest-Vereen of
Brooklyn and Vicinity.  He served the Plattduetsche Volksfest-Vereen of
New York and New Jersey as President in 1979-80 and 1984-85.  He is
currently a very active Honorary President.  Fred also was President of
the Fritz Reuter Altenheim  (Continuing Care Retirement Community)
in North Bergen, New Jersey from  1987-91.  During that period a nine
million dollar Independent Living Building was added to the facility.  
Fred is currently Honorary President and Chairman of t\he House.  He
is also a Life Member and Delegate to the Plattduetsche Home Society
in Franklin Square, New York.

He also has done much to maintain the German culture in America.  He
is the Recording Secretary of the German-American Steuben Parade
Committee of New York; and is a Director  of the German-American
Committee of Greater New York.  He is also a member of the German
Society of the City of New York.  Fred is a founding member, Director
and Recording Secretary of the United German-American Committee of
the U.S.A. Inc. This organization has recently achieved its goal of
opening a  office in  Washington, D.C.  Fred was honored with the
Founders Award at the annual Council of 1000 Banquet held at
Schuetze  Park, North Bergen, New Jersey in 2005.  The
German-American Committee of the U.S.A. Inc. is now also in the
process of opening a three story Cultural Center in Washington, D.C.

Fred is also well-known in the Federal Republic of Germany.  He is an
Honorary Member of the Plattduetsche Kring-Bremen, Plattduetsche
Verein Bremen Neustadt, Uralte Gilde St. Polyc arpus (Delmenhorst,
Schuetzen Corps of Ottersberg, Lamstedt, Bedekesa and Medebach.  He
is also a member of the Shooting Clubs of Armstorf, Lilienthal and
Beverstedt.

Fred has and continues to be of assistance to many German groups and
organizations in connection with their visits to the United States.

Fred was honored in 2004 with the German-American Friendship award
of the Federal Republic of Germany, thus helping to strengthen  the ties
between America and Germany.

Mr. Hansen speaks, reads and writes fluent High German and
Plattduetsch.



























         Lebenslauf
          Johannes Rammund De Balliel-Lawrora
                  Executive Director - Webmaster
        Public Relations & Research Administrator














                     Johannes Rammund De Balliel-Lawrora

























Johannes Rammund De Balliel-Lawrora (German Birth Name) - [John
Raymond Lawrora - American derivative]:  He was raised by his
maternal grandparents as their son.  They originated from  the City of
Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, and emigrated to America in 1897.   Mr. De
Balliel-Lawrora's name was Americanized when he entered the public
school system.  His father died when he was two years of age and his
mother was sickly for many years, but died at the age of 92.  His first
language was German, and he did not learn English until he attended
the Public School System.  His grandfather is directly decended  from
the French Aristocracy prior to the French Revolution.  During the
Napoleonic  Invasions of Central and Eastern Europe, there were two
brothers that managed to escape the hostile throngs of the Revolution.  
Napoleon impressed the brothers into the service of the new empire, and
the outcome was that the brothers were wounded in the areas of Prussia
and Poland, and were nursed back to health by the women that found
the wounded men.  Henceforth, one brother settled in Prussia, and the
other in Poland.  The title "De" was retained by members of the Balliel
family, until the American descendants passed on in the late twentieth
century.  The titled name is carried forth fro m generation to generation;
but outside of the name being French in essence, the present holders of
the title and the name are no longer French, but Prussian German.  here
are many descendants with the name Balliel still residing in Germany,
but none exist in their original, ancestral French homeland.    Johannes
is historically knowledgeable on the old testament and on Germanic
History and Culture.  He was raised in a strict Orthodox German
Roman Catholic environment.










                   
                              Garmisch, in the German Alps

Johannes was born on August 31, 1926; and at the age of 2, because of
an accident, a debilitating disease overcame him, leaving him on a
critical death watch list fo thirteen years, after which he was pronounced
cured.  He graduated from the A. Harry Moore School for Crippled
Children; and attended Snyder and Dickinson High Schools, where he
studied German, Latin and Spanish; and Jersey Preparatory School, all
in Jersey City, New Jersey.  He attended St. Peter's College to receive
instruction in Nursing Home Administration; Liberal Arts Courses at
Hudson County Community College; and courses in Criminal
Psychology in Denver, Colorado.  He resided and worked in Page,
North Dakota; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Denver, Colorado.

After World War II, Johannes collected clothing and for the destitute in
Germany and Austria.  He later became the German Press Agent of the
Newark Sport Club (a German Soccer Club) in Irvington, New Jersey;
Secretary of Branch13 and later National Secretary of the Federation of  
American Citizens of German Descent; Honorary Delegate of the Union
Hill Turn Verein to the Plattduetsche Volksfest-Vereen of New York and
New Jersey; member of the Steinauer Club, Ritterhuder Verein, and the
Verein der Unterweser-orte.  He was the Administrator and General
Secretary and founder of the Northern New Jersey School of the
German Language; Chairman of the Miss and Little Miss Schuetzen
Park Beauty Pageants from 1968 - 2007; founder and English language
Editor of "Dee Eekboom" newspaper and the "German-American
World Newspaper" from  1970 - 1982; and former Public Relations
Director of America's Oberammergau Passion Play at the Park Theatre,
Union City, New Jersey, from 1969 - 1982.  He is also the founder of the
German-American World Historical Society, Inc. from 1972 and again
in 2003, when he organized an historical website dedicated to his
Germanic heritage.

Since his birth in 1926, his grandparents took him to many festivals in
Schuetzen Park, North Bergen, New Jersey; where as a child and a
teenager, he attended the Bavarian Volksfest, Cannstatter Volksfest,
Plattduetsche Volksfest, German-American Day Festival, and the
Badenser Volksfest.  Johannes was the Festival Secretary of the
Plattduetsche Volksfest-Vereen from 1966, until he bacame General
Secretary in the late 1980s, a position he held until 2003.

He is a life member and trustee of the Fritz Reuter Altenheim
Continuous Care Retirement Community.  He has been married to the
former Elsie Adelheidi Gakstetter for more than 47 years.

After his official retirement in 1991, he formed a computer training
school (Gak-Law Computer Training Institute) in Jersey City, which he
operated for ten years.

The development of the German-American World Historical Society was
established  to permit people of Germanic origin and other ethnic
persuasions, to fully comprehend the rich cultural heritage of the
Germanic races, and to research the past two world wars to determine
the truth about what actually happened  after  the conclusion of both
wars; and to issue essays on the Germanic Races and the
German-Americans in the USA.

                     By-Laws
                       of the
   German-American World Historical Society, Inc.

ARTICLE I
Policy of the Society

1.  The Business and Policy of the Corporaton shall be established and
maintained as designated in the Certificate of Incorporation.

2.   The Corporation may also establish and have offices at such other
place or places as may from time to time be designated by the Board of
Trustees

ARTICLE II
Purposes of the Society

1.   The purpose for which the Corporation is formed are those set forth
in its Articles of Incorporation, as from time to time amended.  The
Corporation is not formed for pecuniary or financial gain, and no part
of the assets, income, or profit of the Corporation is distributable to, or
inures benefit to its trustees or officers except to the extent permitted
under the New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation Act.

2.   The Corporation may lease, and, by gift, devise or purchase, own
and operate real estate for the Corporate purposes; and the Corporation
may also solicit donations and accept money or personal property to aid
in its purposes and to maintain the same.

ARTICLE III
Corporate Seal

1.   The Corporation Seal shall be affixed to all Legal and Banking
Documents.

ARTICLE IV
Members

1.   The first members of the Corporation shall consist of the members
of the original Board of Trustees of the Corporation, unless they have
resigned or their membership is otherwise terminated.  Thereafter,
the eligibility and qualifications for membership and the manner of and
admission into membership shall be prescribed by resolutions duly
adopted by the Board of Trustees.  All such resolutions or rules
and regulations relating to members adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Corporation shall be affixed to the By-Laws of the Corporation
and shall be deemed to be a part thereof.  Such resolutions of
rules and regulations adopted by the Board of Trustees may prescribe,
with respect to all members, the amount and manner of imposing
and collecting any initiations fees, dues, or other fees, assessments, fines
and penalties, the manner of suspension or termination of
membership, and for the reinstatement of membership, and, except as
may hereinafter otherwise be provided, the rights, liabilities and other
incidents of membership.














                       The German Federal Railway System;
               One of the best maintained systems in the world..

ARTICLE V
Board of Trustees

2.   The Board of Trustees may cause to be issued certificates, cards or
other instruments permitted by law evidencing membership in the
Corporation.  Such membership certificate, card, or other instrument.
Membership certificates, cards or other instruments, if issued, shall bear
the signatures or facsimile signatures of an officer or officers designated
by the Board of Trustees and may bear the seal of the Corporation or
facsimile thereof

Amendment 1:

The Number of Trustees have  been changed to five (5).

Amendment 2:

Trustees shall be elected for a period of three (3) years effective
immediately.

ARTICLE VI
Meetings of Members

1.   Annual Meeting:  The annual meeting of the members shall be held
at the principal office of the corporation or at such other place as may
be specified by the Board of Directors, on the first Monday of each year
in the month in which this Corporation's initial Certificate of
Incorporation was first filed with the Secretary of State at 10:00 A.M
The Board of GTrustees may change the date of the meeting to avoid
legal holidays.  The meeting will be for the purpose of holding elections
and for the transactions of such other business as may come
before the meeting.

2.   Special Meetings:   Special Meetings may be called for any purpose,
at any time, by the President of the Board of Trustees.

3.   Quorum and Voting:  A majority of the members must be present at
any meeting of the members before business may be conducted.  
However, if a quorum is not present, a majority of the members present
at the meeting may adjourn the meeting from time to time
without further notice.  At all meetings, except for the election of
officers or trustees, the membership will vote by a showing of hands.  
Written ballots will be used for all elections and when otherwise
requested by a simple majority of members present.  Any member may
vote by written proxy.

4.   Action Without A Meeting:   The members may take action without
a meeting by written consent in the manner prescribed by the
New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation Act.  Such written consent or
consents shall be filed with the meetings of the corporation.









          Mountains, Plains and Rivers of Germany...
ARTICLE VII
Powers - Board of Trustees

1.   General Powers:   The affairs of the Corporation  shall be managed
by its Board of Trustees, which shall consist of not less than three (3)
Trustees.

2.   Term of Office:   Each trustee shall hold office until his or her
successor is elected at the annual meeting of the members,
and duly qualified, subject to earlier termination by removal or
resignation.  The Board shall consist of all officers along with such other
trustee position as determined by the members at their annual meeting.

3.   Regular Meetings:   The Board of Trustees shall hold their annual
meeting immediately after and at the same time and place as
the annual meeting of members.  The Board may provide by resolution
for additional regular meetings to be held without notice except as
provided by the resolution itself.

4.   Special Meetings:   The President or any two trustees may call for
special meetings of the Board and fix the time and place for said
meetings.

5.   Notice:   Trustees shall be notified of any special meeting by
advance notice in writing which shall be sent by mail or personally
delivered at least 10 days before the time set for the meeting.  The
notices may be sent to the addresses as shown on the records of the
Corporation.   Lack of notice is waived by written waiver or
attendance at the meeting without protest.

ARTICLE VIII
Officers

1.   Designation:   The Officers of the Corporation shall be a President
(Executive Vice-President), Executive Director, Vice-President,  
Secretary, and Treasurer, and such additional Officers as the Board of
Trustees may from time to time determine by resolution.  Any two or
more offices may be held by the same person, except the offices of
President and Secretary.

2.   Term:   The Initial officers shall be elected by the Board of
Trustees at their organizational meeting.  Thereafter, the officers shall
be elected every three (3) years at a time and place designated by the
Board of Trustees.

3.   President (Exective Vice-President):   The Executive Vice-President
shall be the principal officer of the corporation and shall supervise and
control all the business and affairs of the Corporation.  The Executive
Vice-President shall preside at all meetings of the members and the
Board of Trustees.  He or she shall hae all such powers as may
reasonably be construed as belonging to the chief executive of a
non-profit corporation.  He is the Chief Executive Officer

4-A.   Executive Vice-President (See President):   The Office of Executive
Vice-President is an Administrative, Ceremonial and Public Relations
position. The person with this position is the Chairperson at any public
function and works to enhance the importance of the organization in
membership enrollments, and bringing to the attention of the public the
positive aspects of being a member, or the potential of advertising.

4-B.   Vice-President:   The Vice-President shall perform the duties of the
President in the President or in  the event of the President's inability or
refusal to act.

5.  Executive Director handles all procol of the society and the
maintenance of the website.  His duties range from Public Relations,
Editorial, Advertising, and planning.  His commitment to the website
cannot be countermanded; and he makes all decisions regarding the
input into the website and/or the newsletter.  His planning is a public
relations one, and he works harmoniously with the Executive
Vice-President regarding the input of the website.  He also maintains the
Email programs; advertising insertions; and photographic insertions
into the site.

6.   Secretary-General:   The Secretary shall keep the minutes and
records of the Corporation in appropriate books (looseleaf binders,
etc.), see that all notices are given in accordance with these by-laws or as
provided by law, keep the seal of the Corporation [maintaining same in
the Administrative Office]; and affix same to corporate documents, keep
a list of all members and trustees and their mailing addresses and, in
general, perform all duties incidental to the office of Secretary and such
other duties as may be assigned by the Executive Vice-President or the
Board of Trustees.

6.   Treasurer:   The Treasurer shall have charge and custody of and be
resonsible for all funds and securities of the Corporation, and, in
general, perform all duties incidental to the office of Treasurer and
other duties as may be assigned by the President or Board of Trustees.

7.   Removal:   Officers may be removed by the Board of Trustees
with or without cause, by the vote of a majority of the Board of
Directors

8.   Vacancies:   Vacancies may be filled at any meeting of the Board
of Trustees.  Each officer shall remain in office until his or her successor
is elected and qualifies, subject to earlier termination by removal or
resignation.








Scenic drive takes you to the Castles of Germany;
Culture and History is what this website is all about..


ARTICLE IX
Committees

1.   The Board of Trustees may, by resolution adopted by a majority  of
the entire Board, establish committees of two or more trustees to
conduct the management of the Corporation.  Other committees shall
be established consisting of members of theCorporation, but may not
exercise the authority of the Board of Trustees in the management of the
Corporation.  All committees shall function in accordance with the
rules and procedures established by the Board of Trustees.

ARTICLE X
Amendments

These by-laws may be altered, amended or repealed, or new by-laws
adopted, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Board of Trustees
at any regular or special meeting of the Board, provided that notice of
the intended alteration or amendments be included  in the notice of the
meeting given to the trustees pursuant to these by-laws.  Any by-laws
adopted, amended, repealed or reinstated, as appropriate, by the Board
of Trustees, unless the resolution  adopted by the members in respect to
such by-laws expressly reserves to the members the right to alter,
amend, repeal or reinstate it, as appropriate.

ARTICLE XI
Dissolution

Dissolution of the German-American World Historical Society, Inc.
Upon dissolution  of the German-American World Historical Society,
Inc. any remaining physical assets acquired by the organizaton will be
sold.   The monies from this and any monies remaining in the
Organization Treasury shall be donated to the Fritz Reuter Altenheim a
501 (c) 3 Corporation, located at 3161 Kennedy Boulevard, North
Bergen, New Jersey 07047.





















Map of "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation"
















Molly Pitcher fires the Cannon after her husband is wounded...
She was recognized as the "Heroine" of the Battle of Monmouth!
American born - She was the daughter of German Emigrants!
     Mary "Ludwig" Hays McCauly
Revisionists claim otherwise; but facts are there with the Truth!
Legend:
Flage of the United States of America
Coat of Arms of the
Hanseatic City of Hamburg...
Flag of the Federal Republic of Germany
Map and Location of the
Village of  Steinau
Federal Republic of Germany
Legend:
Photo of:
Johannes Rammund De Balliel-Lawrora
>Flag of the
United States of America
>Flag of the
Federal Republic of Germany
>Coat of Arms of the
Kingdom of Prussia
>City and Old Town Square
of Posen (Poznan)
Kingdom of Prussia